Melibeus

or Melibe. A wealthy young man, married to Prudens. One
day, when Melibeus “went into the fields to play,” some of his enemies
got into his house, beat his wife, and wounded his daughter Sophie with
five mortal wounds “in her feet, in her hands, in her ears, in her
nose, and in her mouth,” left her for dead, and made their escape. When
Melibeus returned home he resolved upon vengeance, but his wife
persuaded him to forgiveness, and Melibeus, taking his wife's counsel,
called together his enemies, and told them he forgave them “to this
effect and to this ende, that God of His endeles mercy wole at the tyme
of oure deyinge forgive us oure giltes that we have trespased to Him in
this wreeched world.” (Chaucer: Canterbury Tales.)

N.B. This prose tale of Melibeus is a literal translation of a
French story, of which there are two copies in the British Museum. (MS. Reg. 19. c. vii.; and MS. Reg. 19, c. xi.)